Each child is unique by their character, goals, shortcomings and virtues (品德). When a learning disability is added to the mix, it becomes harder for teachers to find the best approaches to promoting the child’s process of learning and completing school tasks.
However, if you want to help children who have a learning disability, it is best to start with building a sincere relationship by explaining what is learning disability. You should tell them that having some sort of learning disability is not a problem that makes them any less valuable. They just need a different approach that will help them reach the same results as their classmates in class.
Bearing in mind that children with learning difficulties cannot always reach high grades, teachers must explain to them that effort must always be above the result itself. Teachers should tell the children that the key to success is in surpassing themselves, not comparing with others. And this is possible only through putting effort into mastering a certain skill or acquiring certain knowledge. When enough effort is made, the desired result will surely be achieved; it is only a matter of time.
As Albert Einstein once said, “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” This nicely sums up the complex nature of intelligence in humans. Bearing this saying in mind, it is good teachers’ duty to appreciate the strengths of a child with a learning disability, to cultivate these strengths through much praise and to help create excellent skills that will enable the child to stand out among their classmates. Try to discover the gifts of children with learning difficulties and ad-just those gifts to these general supportive approaches, which is good teachers’ job! Just do it, and finally all the desired goals will be achieved!
1. What makes a teacher find it harder to promote a student’s study?| A．The difficult school tasks. |
| B．The student’s own character. |
| C．The lack of learning passion. |
| D．The student’s learning disability. |
| A．Make them feel more valuable. |
| B．Set lots of goals for them. |
| C．Explain what is learning disability to them. |
| D．Introduce approaches to help them succeed. |
| A．Helping. | B．Overcoming. | C．Encouraging. | D．Enjoying. |
| A．They're strict with students. |
| B．They are adaptable and energetic. |
| C．They listen and communicate well. |
| D．They can appreciate and shape students. |
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【推荐1】Education is as important as the air everyone breathes. It is the most valuable possession a person must have.
Your educational degree is considered as a proof of your knowledge by many. If you are educated you have more chances of being heard and taken seriously. Generally, an uneducated man will find it harder to express his views and opinions owing to lack of confidence.
Moreover, education is of great help if you want to be a self-dependent person. And it benefits you in a lot of aspects in the life.
We all live in a society which has its own set spoken or unspoken rules and one of them is education. The society expects you to go to school followed by college, get a job etc.
| A．Education gives you confidence to express your voice |
| B．The more educated you are, the better choices you have |
| C．To enjoy happiness and other good things society offers |
| D．If you want to see society as a just and harmonious place |
| E．Education is a factor that contributes to the community’s peace |
| F．Educated people will get well-paid jobs based on more choices |
| G．In fact, education helps you become a useful member of society |
【推荐2】Narasimha Das is on his way to feed 169,379 hungry children. Das is in charge of a kitchen in Vrindaban. The town is about a three-hour drive from India’s capital, New Delhi. Das gets to work at 3:00 a.m. Thirty workers are already working to make tens of thousands of rounds of bread. It will be brought to 1,516 schools in and around Vrindaban.
A Growing Problem
Going to school is difficult for more than 13 million children in India. They must go to work instead, or go hungry. That’s why India began the Mid-Day Meal Scheme, the largest school-lunch program in the world. A free lunch encourages children to come to school and gives them the energy they need for learning. The program began in the 1960s.
The kitchen in Vrindaban is run by the Akshaya Patra Foundation. It is one of the lunch program’s biggest partners. “Just $11.50 can feed one child for an entire year,” said Madhu Sridhar, president of the Akshaya Patra Foundation.
Lunch Is Served!
The Akshaya Patra food truck arrives at Gopalgarh Primary School. Since the program started, the number of underweight children has gone down. The children get foods they need — as long as they finish what’s on their plates.
1. What does Narasimha Das do？| A．A waiter. | B．A salesman. | C．A cook. | D．A shopkeeper. |
| A．the poor | B．school children | C．college students | D．the old |
| A．Because they have to work to make money. |
| B．Because there are not enough schools. |
| C．Because there are not enough teachers. |
| D．Because their parents refuse to send them to school. |
| A．It is to encourage children to go to school. |
| B．It has been carried out for about 50 years. |
| C．It is run by Narasimha Das. |
| D．It is the largest school-lunch program in the world. |
【推荐3】Huckleberry Finn, the great character from the Mark Twain book did not like school. He preferred floating down the Mississippi River on a raft and looking for adventure. That`s why generations of schoolboys have loved reading Huckleberry Finn: they feel the same way about school as he did.
For many boys, being forced to sit all day in a school room is like being punished for a crime they did not commit. There are endless hours of boredom spent learning things they have no interest in. That's why many boys do poorly in school and many give up on education altogether.
Ironically（具有讽刺意味的是）, the whole idea for schools was invented for boys. If a boy wanted to grow up to be a useful man, he had to be educated. By and by, people realized that educating girls was a good idea, too. And, ironically again, it was discovered that the school system suits girls just fine; so fine that girls now do much better than boys in school.
No one really knows why that is. Some say that girls mature（发育成熟）quicker than boys and adapt better to school life. Some also say that the school system and the curriculum（课程）have changed to encourage girls but the needs of boys have been overlooked.
Educators are now trying to find ways to get boys to be more successful in school. There are suggestions to separate the sexes and teach boys separately. There are also suggestions to change the curriculum to make it more interesting for boys.
Whatever the changes are, boys still will be boys, and dreams of floating down the Mississippi River will always be an attractive choice to just sitting in a classroom.
1. Huckleberry Finn is_________.| A．a boy of Mark Twain | B．a character in a book |
| C．an American writer | D．a river`s name |
| A．they give up on education |
| B．they're punished for a crime they did not commit |
| C．they have no interest in the things they`re learning |
| D．they prefer floating down the Mississippi River on a raft |
| A．more boys are needed |
| B．boys need to be cared about a lot |
| C．the needs of boys have been very important |
| D．People have paid little attention to the needs of boys |
| A．Girls now do much better than boys in school. |
| B．The school system has changed to encourage girls. |
| C．Girls mature quicker than boys and adapt better to school life. |
| D．The curriculum has changed to be more interesting for boys. |
Now, China has more than 162 million Internet users, according to the China Internet Network Information Centre. This is the second highest number of user in the world after the United States. Today, 66%of Chinese “netizens （网民）” are teenagers. “They spend about thirteen hours every week online,” said Qian Hulin, an Internet expert(专家). Doctor Song in Beijing Xuanwu Hospital said about 14% of Chinese netizens who are teens often lasted over ten hours to play online games.
The main reasons why teenagers surf the Web are to search for information, to communicate with others and to have fun. On the Internet, teenagers can find out almost anything. And surfing the Web can help students with their homework and widen their knowledge.
Li Dong, a teacher at No. 41 Middle School in Shijiazhuang, likes her students to use the Internet. “When we talk in class, students who surf the Net usually know more background information than the others,” she said.
In addition, people can use the Internet to write letters or stories and send emails. Many teens keep in touch with their friends online. It is cheaper than phoning somebody far away and also much quicker.
1. _______ has the most Internet users in the world according to the article.
| A．China | B．America | C．Canada | D．Russia |
| A．107 million old | B．22.7 million old |
| C．107 million young | D．22.7 million young |
| A．playing online games |
| B．searching for information |
| C．chatting with their friends |
| D．sending emails to others |
| A．thinks surfing the net can help students spend less time on homework |
| B．thinks her students can get more background information than the others |
| C．wants her students to talk to her about their hobbies and interests |
| D．wants to know what her students do and think about at home |
| A．Giving them a call. |
| B．Going to see them. |
| C．Writing a letter to them. |
| D．Sending emails to them. |
【推荐2】Many of you may have used Siri, a voice assistant of US tech company Apple. You only have to say “hey Siri” and it will answer to your command. However, we may be sacrificing our privacy to enjoy this convenience.
According to a recent report by the Guardian, Siri can be accidentally triggered(触发) and start recording private conversations, such as discussions between doctors and patients. Some of these recordings are then given to workers outside the company to review. Apple claimed the data was used to help Siri improve, but users were not informed of this measure in the first place.
Apple’s Siri is not the only voice assistant to come under fire. In 2018, Alexa, a voice assistant developed by US tech company Amazon, recorded a private conversation between a couple and sent it to a stranger without their permission.
These issues deepened concerns that tech companies are threatening users’ rights of privacy. Many people have long feared that tech companies are listening and collecting data from private conversations, reported Forbes. Using this data, third party companies could then paint an accurate picture of users’ habits and preferences in order to serve them more targeted advertisements, or even worse, sell this private data.
Despite this risk, the popularity of voice assistant seems to be unstoppable. According to a report by Ovum, a London-based research firm, there will be almost as many voice assistants on the planet as people by 2021. “In the near future, everything from your lighting to your air-conditioning to your refrigerator, your coffee maker, and even your toilet could be wired to a system controlled by voice,” commented The Atlantic. Colin Horgan wrote on the blog site Medium that he believed people’s daily lives will soon become a source of data. “The sounds of our homes, the symphony of life—laughing, crying, talking, shouting, sitting in silence—will no longer be considered memories, but data,” he wrote.
To deal with the issue, Blake Morgan, reporter for The Atlantic, believed that the answer is transparency. “All companies need to have messaging ready to explain to customers what they do with private data,” she wrote on The Atlantic.
Daniel Blair, CEO of a virtual reality startup in Canada, told CBC News that people can change settings and limit how often the device is active in your home, and do some research before buying a device.
1. Why are users worried about the use of the voice assistants?| A．The tech company didn’t tell the users how they work. |
| B．Their houses will be controlled by voice assistants. |
| C．The assistants will turn their daily lives into data. |
| D．Their private data may be collected and abused. |
| A．be on fire | B．be criticized | C．be praised | D．be out of date |
| A．Inform the users of how they deal with the data. |
| B．Remove the assistants from the users’ devices. |
| C．Change the settings and limit the use of the assistants. |
| D．Do some research on whether the users like the assistants. |
| A．Voice assistant: a future fashion |
| B．Voice assistant: a private data defender |
| C．Voice assistant: a potential privacy threat |
| D．Voice assistant: an efficient house-keeper |
【推荐3】When a big exam is coming up, you probably feel anxious about any wasted time and want to begin school as soon as you probably can.
But tens of thousands of British high school students will soon be getting up later. They’re taking part in a new experiment by Oxford University to see if later classes can improve their exam results.
Grade 10 students in the UK have to take the nationwide General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) exams. They have to pass these exams in order to study higher level courses, and later apply to universities.
The Oxford University project means that GCSE students from more than 100 schools across England will start school at 10 am, more than one hour later than the current start time (8:50am).
The project is based on scientific evidence that teenagers are “out of sync” with traditional school hours, The Telegraph reported. And what they need is more sleep in the morning.
“We know that something funny happens when you’re a teenager, in that you seem to be out of sync with the world,” said professor Colin Epsie, who is leading the study. “Your parents think it’s because you are lazy and opinionated (固执己见的) and that everything will be OK if you could go to sleep earlier. But science is telling us that teenagers need to sleep more in the morning.”
Everyone follows a natural cycle of sleep. Biology has decided that teenagers go to sleep around midnight and don’t feel fully awake until 9-10 am, according to scientists. That’s two hours later than adults. And their body clocks stay like this until the age of around 21 for males, and 19 for females.
“Society provides schools for learning, but the brain provides sleep. So we are exploring the possibility that if you delay the school start time until 10 am, that will improve learning performance,” said Epsie.
The results could be positive, based on previous studies.
An early study at the UK’s Monkseaton High School in 2009 found that starting an hour later improved grades in major subjects by 19 percent.
The Oxford University project is expecting to publish the results later this year. It’s time to wait and see whether scientists will give us an excuse to get up late.
1. According to the passage, students who take part in the Oxford University project _______.| A．will start school one hour earlier |
| B．will no longer have to take GCSE exams |
| C．will perform better academically than those who don’t participate |
| D．will be guaranteed more sleeping time in the morning |
| A．breaking the habit of doing something |
| B．getting used to doing something |
| C．having no idea of something |
| D．having trouble keeping up with something |
| A．the Oxford University project is aimed at all British high schools |
| B．getting up late is a sign of laziness in the eyes of most British parents |
| C．children and adults have different natural cycles of sleep and wakefulness |
| D．there is still no scientific evidence that supports a late school start time |
| A．Critical. | B．Optimistic. |
| C．Doubtful. | D．Uninterested. |
